Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching.

[Magellan]

Re: Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching

I stopped watching Voyager and DS9 around season 5 each. Voyager just got too, ummm, lacing in sophistication and DS9 was too boring. I watched the first 3 seasons of Family Guy but then only watched the first episode of the fourth season. It was so bad I never watched again. I probly caught the first 2 seasons of Smallville, until I realized they were never going to really move beyond what they were doing.

Thats about it. I don't really watch TV shows. I see whatever is on, when I have some time to kill. I haven't made plans to keep up with a series in years. The only ting I've watched consistently is the new Walking Dead, but only beacuse fios lets me watch it when it's convenient for me.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Re: Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching

If you missed the last part of DS9's S5 and the first half of S6, you missed some of the best TV of all time!

 

[Scotty]

Re: Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching

The Simpsons: After the 12th season. No reason other than that the BBC stopped airing it. I might pick those seasons up on DVD.

The X-Files: Halfway through season 8. I never did know what The Truth was.

Heroes: After the first episode of season 2. Bleh! Then again, that show wasn't destined to become long running.

Grey's Anatomy: I think that at that point McDreamy and Grey had hooked up and the rest had all slept with one another. What reason was there to keep watching?

American Idol and other talent shows: I watched last year but now that Cowell is gone I see no point. But I also stopped watching Dutch Idols, X-Factor and didn't even start on the Voice of Holland (soon a major singing contest on NBC, obviously it'll be called the voice of America then). Since I never heard from any of the winners after the shows had ended, I don't think I'll miss much.

The Sopranos: HBO's most overrated show. After two seasons I gave up.

 

[Random_Spock]

Re: Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching

The Simpsons: After the 12th season. No reason other than that the BBC stopped airing it. I might pick those seasons up on DVD.

The X-Files: Halfway through season 8. I never did know what The Truth was.

Heroes: After the first episode of season 2. Bleh! Then again, that show wasn't destined to become long running.

Grey's Anatomy: I think that at that point McDreamy and Grey had hooked up and the rest had all slept with one another. What reason was there to keep watching?

American Idol and other talent shows: I watched last year but now that Cowell is gone I see no point. But I also stopped watching Dutch Idols, X-Factor and didn't even start on the Voice of Holland (soon a major singing contest on NBC, obviously it'll be called the voice of America then). Since I never heard from any of the winners after the shows had ended, I don't think I'll miss much.

The Sopranos: HBO's most overrated show. After two seasons I gave up.

I saw through the finale (the X-Files). You didn't miss much . The writing wasn't nearly as good as it used to be. Still don't mind watching reruns though... anything's got to be better than some of the stuff that's on television today.

As for Heroes... I used to watch it as well and keep up with it on NBC... but the player was so slow that in the end, I just gave up even trying to watch it.

 

[ichab]

Re: Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching

The Simpsons...like 8 years ago.

Ditto. The Simpsons has long since ran its course. I haven't seen South Park in a long time either because they went from being funny to just plain being gross.

 

[kirsten187]

Re: Long-running TV shows you invested seasons in but stopped watching

There's a UK hospital drama called Casualty (equivelant of ER) that started in 1986 and is still going today. I started watching in 1990 and was totally hooked. I stopped watching it in 2000 I think. I occasionally catch a few minutes once or twice a year now but I feel it has gone totally down hill. It's like a soap opera these days. It used to be 12 or 13 episodes a year, then in increased to 26 when it got more popular in the early 1990s. It's downfall, in my opinion, came when it kept increasing the episode numbers and now it runs for around 11 months of the year.